By: Pam Dearth, Guest Contributor
As I walk on the beach, I am often drawn to pick up shells that are interesting to me. Not the shells that most people choose, not the “perfect shells.” Many of these shells are broken, some have sharp edges and other times the broken edges have been worn smooth by the effect of the water through the ages. Sometimes they appear to have crevices or holes in ...
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When do you take a shower? Is it in a rush before work, a quick scrub after a long day, or a long soak, perhaps with some soothing music and a glass of wine?
Regardless of how or when you do it, we all recognize that bathing is an important part of our life. It is necessary for keeping the dirt and germs off our body. ...
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We live our lives in constant transition. We’re always going from one stage or phase to another, usually trying to get to somewhere we’ve never been before. It is virtually impossible to stay in one spot, unless we’re content with the hardships that result from arrested development. The wear and tear of daily living are only worth putting up with if you’re trying to get somewhere—if you’re trying to reach something. However, in light of your desire to want to ...
Read More →At Designed Future, what we want for ourselves, we want for everybody: to prosper, to seek excellence, to experience love, happiness, human connectedness, and to live a life that means something.
Our existing government systems and programs only keep the masses in poverty. Though ...
Read More →Plato’s famous allegory of the cave is a powerful analogy for understanding the effect assumptions have on our lives. The myth resolves around prisoners chained inside a cave. Behind them is a fire, and other people walk inform of that fire, which creates shadows. The prisoners are unable to see these other people, and can only see the shadows.
For these prisoners, it is only these shadows that comprise reality. They don’t know that the shadows are really reflections of people ...
Read More →Whenever we try to manifest something new into our lives, often we can sometimes wonder when it will manifest. Let’s say we want to reduce our weight. We can find ourselves making changes (drinking more water instead of soda, walking more, eating more fruits and vegetables), yet, after a while, results aren’t really showing, are poor, or non-existent. At this point it is easy to become dissatisfied at the rate of change in our lives, and come close to adopting ...
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It’s Christmas, my fellow humans, so what would it look like if we did our very best to live with our beautiful hearts wide open tomorrow?
Yes, yes, yes. it’s inevitable. We’re going to get irked by those who always seem to trigger us the most. That’s what being a human being is all about. Especially at the holidays. Our feelings may get hurt. Others may fall very short of meeting the high expectations of who we ...
Read More →The name of our nonprofit is Designed Future. And our mission isn’t just lip service. It’s our mantra. We provide life-changing training and empowerment that gives hope and inspiration to everyone in all walks of life. We all have the inalienable right to prosper. Designed Future radically disrupts the seemingly endless struggle with money once and for all. We’ve created an entirely new context for life, in which all ...
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A bulb is planted in the ground, and it instinctively knows which way to grow. It knows to sprout upwards through the dirt, to reach for the sunlight that promotes, nurtures, and encourages natural growth, allowing it to blossom fully into the magnificent beauty that it is intended to be. Human beings are no different. We’re born, and our lungs, heart, and all of the other vital organs ...
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Hi. I’m Julie Dankovich, and I’m radically changing the direction of my life. Sounds so very exciting, doesn’t it? Oh contraire, mon cherie! I have been living in hell for the past 16 months. Major life changes: they can be a muthuh.
Our days here are fleeting, though there are times when weeks, months, or even a year feel like an unforgiving and cruel eternity. There exists a mysterious cosmic order to ...
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